--- title: After a compliment, say thank you and leave it there, because boasti… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: After a compliment, say thank you and leave it there, because boasting spoils the good feeling. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Compliments and respecting differences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/) / 9 # Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 9 After a compliment, say thank you and leave it there, because boasting spoils the good feeling. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, thank, leave, boast, spoil · **To what, where:** you, compliment, good feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:9 # text = After a compliment, say thank you and leave it there, because boasting spoils the good feeling. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 compliment compliment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 6 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 boasting boast VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 15 spoils spoil VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | after a compliment | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | | compliment | | there | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spoil** | present | | the good feeling | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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